selected publications

‘student activism, mental health, and the english-canadian university in the 1960s,’
canadian historical review 92/3 (2011): 455-80.

‘menopause and historical constructions of cancer risk,’
canadian bulletin of medical history 28/1 (2011): 43-70.

‘from the “silent killer” to the “whispering disease”: ovarian cancer and the uses of metaphor,’ 
medical history 53/4 (2009): 489-512.

‘race, culture, and the colonization of childbirth in northern canada,’
in veronica strong-boaget al, eds., rethinking canada: the promise of women’s history. oxford university press, 2006.

‘breast cancer and the politics of abortion in the united states,’ 
medical history 49/1 (2005): 423-44.

‘malignant histories: psychosomatic medicine and the female cancer patient in post-war america,’ 
canadian bulletin of medical history 20/2 (2003): 265-98.

‘breast cancer and the language of risk, 1750-1950,’ 
social history of medicine 15/1 (2002): 17-43.

‘maternalism and the homeopathic mission in late-victorian montreal,’ 
canadian bulletin of medical history 16 (1999): 293-315.

‘mind, medicine, and the christian science controversy in canada, 1880-1910,’ 
journal of canadian studies 32/4 (1998): 5-22.

wild things: nature, culture, and tourism in ontario,
1790-1914. university of toronto press, 1995.